Penetration Tester Certification Programme:

Students must successfully complete MCSI’s Penetration Tester Fusion Course and its 100 practical exercises in our Online Learning Platform prior to undertaking the Final Online Assessment to obtain this certification:

Final Online Assessment:

The final assessment is a blend of online challenges and virtual machines to compromise.

Career Outcomes:

Individuals who hold the MPT Certification can apply for Junior and Intermediate Penetration Testing jobs worldwide with the confidence that they have the competencies that the industry is seeking for in these roles.

As an MSCI Certified Penetration Tester you will be ready to perform the following:

Identify and exploit the most common web and mobile application vulnerabilities. For example:

SQL Injection

Object Injection

XXE Injection

Arbitrary Command Execution

File Inclusion

Cross-Site Scripting

Brute Forcing

Session Fixation

Identify and exploit the most common infrastructure vulnerabilities. For example:

Missing critical security patches

Privilege escalation

Dumping and reusing credentials

Lateral movement and pivoting

Tunnelling

Identify and exploit memory corruption vulnerabilities. For example:

Reverse engineering network protocols

Stack overflows

Bypass stack cookies, ASLR, NX/DEP

Egg hunters

Return Oriented Programming

Write custom attack tools using scripting languages:

Python

Ruby

Use all the major penetration testing tools:

NMAP

Metasploit

Burp Suite

OpenVAS

John the Ripper / Hashcat

SSH Tunnelling

Why MCSI’s Penetration Testing Certification is World Class:

World-Class Requirements Met Are Above Standard: Holders of the MPT Certification have completed 100 practical online exercises thus demonstrating that they have the skills and knowledge required to deliver web, mobile and infrastructure penetration testing. Students take an average of 6 months to complete these exercises.

Internals Focused: Students who have obtained this Certification have demonstrated that they have a full understanding of the vulnerability research and exploitation process. This Certification focuses on the internals of how vulnerabilities are identified and exploited rather than remembering commands for tools (though it does cover tools as well).

Programming Orientated: Many of the challenges that students must pass to obtain this certification require students to write software in scripting languages. This guarantees that penetration testers certified by MCSI understand how vulnerabilities are created and what it takes to write custom exploitation tools.